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Originally Posted by shyboy252001

Let's turn the clock back and look at earlier part of the seasons.. Early this season, after Alonso left us, we were looking for CM to replace and that certain Barry went back against his words on wanting to play for Champ League club.. RB went for Aquilani, not sure right or wrong move, time will tell.. that left us in CM position Gerrard (injured most of the time), Alonso (left), Mascherano (exhausted and mentally not stable due to Barcelona courtship..), Aquilani (injured), Lucas (average Joe), Plessis (errr...), and this small short guy from Academy.. so... lets see.. if we play 4-4-2.. who u pick to partner Mascherano?? i'd say Lucas was more like a no-choice option for RB.. and now nearer to the end of Season, u saw Lucas benched more often..

STILL PROUD TO BE REDS!!

rafa has never said lucas is our 1st choice CM... as bro shyboy said, he was playing most of the game becos we had no other CM to choose from...
Plessis did well in few matches 1 or 2 season ago, but faded away badly, got report saying tat his attitude wasn't the best...
spearing vs lucas? i'll still go for lucas thou spearing is a homegrown young player...
err... putting gerrard in CM and play benayoun in AM? both of them were having their own problem with their form n injuries...
on the topic of why did rafa buy an injured player... i strongly believe tat rafa was given little $$, and instead of buying a 5-10 mil "average player" (then people will again critised him for buying squad player), he took a gamble in aquilani whose payment i believe comes in instalments with little downpayment.. (nobody in the right mind will pay a full lump sum fee for an injured player... not even rick parry!!) and even rafa said before, if aqualani is fully fit, he'll cost more (he's very highly rated in italy), and we'll never able to afford him...

i guess we din have many choice...

as bro shyboy mentioned too, when evrybody is fit lately, we see lucas on the bench for some of the game...

when rafa stick to lucas, people say he favour lucas... when rafa din play babel, people say he dun give him chance...
when rafa drop a player after a good performance, people say he no good in man management lar, destroy the player's confidence lar... but when rafa praise lucas after he put in a good performance, people say he is rafa's pet...

i guess none of the managers for top teams will read paper or internet... else they sure go mad..!!!